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my first guess is lactose intolerance. try cutting your dairy by half and increasing heavy fiber items. you need something to "sop it up" not to be gross either.

you should consider seeing a doctor if it's been weeks. if it just feels like it's been weeks and really has been days, you can probably bulk up on the fiber and be all right, but don't take my words for it.

It looks like all your nutrients are ok, including fiber. But if you're taking in more than you body is normally used to, it could have this effect. How much water are you drinking each day? Just today, there seemed to be a lot of foods you ate that have a higher water content as well. Try eating a banana a day for a couple days and see if it improves. If it's been going on this long, you may want to check with your doctor. You could get severely dehydrated while trying to find a "cure" on your own.

Hope you find out what's going on and find a solution soon!
Tina

I would definitely see a doctor because it could be bacterial. I know someone who had the same problem and he had been drinking water out of his garden hose while working in his garden. It turned out he had picked up an intestinal bacteria.

I looked at your journal. I have been lactose intolerant my whole life and the feeling from it is not what you are describing. I just get really bloated and gassy. You are also not consuming that much dairy. Yogurt is not dairy in a lactose intolerance sense since the active cultures break down the lactose for you. With the stomach issues are having I would suggest seeing a doctor. In the mean time make sure to be getting lots of fluid with electrolytes. You may have a bug (not really related to your intake). By your food diary I can discern 2 other things; you often don't eat enough calories and you eat some fruit. If I have fruit every day I get very sick, like you are describing. I just can't tolerate that much sugar.

Overall, it has been going on long enough that you do need to go get checked out. After 2 weeks is a sign of serious issues.

Good Luck and feel better. :flowerforyou:

fiber, caffeine, and too much lettuce will do this to me... drink lots of fluids, try to avoid caffeine.. which can make it worse.
I have had this quite a few times.. (I refer to it as 'brown water' LOL)
My friend gets it too.. from stress and too much coffee..
Hope this helps.. let me know!
Hugs!

are you taking ibuprofen before your runs? when i was training for my half-marathon i had this problem and it went away when i stopped taking the ibuprofen beforehand

I waited 2 years before I got up enough courage to see my doc...I had your symptons among others. I think maybe if I had gone in right away maybe things would have turned out different for me I was diagonsed with Crohn's (a non curable disease) I have scaring like crazy now, my sad liitle colon. I doubt that you have anything like this though. I am working on fixing the scaring and hopefully my next colonoscopy will be a normal one! GOOD LUCK! Oh I guess I forgot to tell you my advice...see the doc, I regret waiting...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I drink approximately 52 oz of water daily. I drink about 32 oz iced tea (plain daily). I'm definitely not dehyd. I have been having this problem for a couple of weeks now. I just chalked it up to foods and/or dairy products. I will definitely see my doctor though. Thanks everyone!!! You all are great as usual.

Iced tea is a diuretic and actually steals water from the body so I wouldn't count that as daily water intake. Same with coffee. And even though you're drinking 52 ounces a day, you should be drinking at least 80 ounces (best rule of thumb is half your body weigh in ounces) per day.

Agree with the other posters to reduce potassium and call a doctor about your condition.

Call yr doctor ASAP..in the meantime maybe put yr self on the "BRAT" diet like kids when they get diarrhea..and drink fluids so u dont dehyrdrate.
Good Luck and please keep us posted